You can buy laser heads to turn a normal 3d printer into a laser one.
Far cheaper at £89
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Far cheaper at £89
That looks damn good. It can allegedly cut 39mm in a single pass.
It has 8 x 5.5 watt lasers so is a true 40watt output power..
Too much dollar for me presently but coming down in price now..
But it won't be 40watt output power.You can buy laser heads to turn a normal 3d printer into a laser one.
Far cheaper at £89
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Nor me, mostly becaus eI could not stand the noise for the print time it would require.
Not that the thing is 'loud' but it's right next to my desk and the whistle from the drive board gets on my nerves after a while.
You can buy laser heads to turn a normal 3d printer into a laser one.
Far cheaper at £89
Yeah, that is technically true if you want to cut card or similar with a 1.6W head but I'll take a custom designed machine with air assist and a few more safety features to wield a 40W lightsaber around thanks
For reference the 40W head is just £699 if you want to strap that to a 3D printer 
Most of the more powerful heads have air assistance. Obviously wearing good safety glasses is essential. My project many moons ago in university was building a 40W CO2 laser from scratch.Yeah, that is technically true if you want to cut card or similar with a 1.6W head but I'll take a custom designed machine with air assist and a few more safety features to wield a 40W lightsaber around thanks
Took me forever - I even ground the mirrors by hand
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Seems to be some extra coupon codes on the website
https://store.creality.com/uk/pages...EMAIL_ID]&mc_cid=7255ebbf8d&mc_eid=127310e540
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Getting expensive hanging around here.
I have now dipped my toe, well ordered a K1 and taken to following walk through tutorials on FreeCad, so far so good FreeCad seems a lot easier than some of the 2D drawing packages I have played with in the past. It (FreeCad ) will run on the old hack laptop but Creality's print won't because of the Intel 3000 on board graphics, so will probably use the Win10 boot camp partition of the MBP for 3D work as the Mac IOS partition is rather full and I can't be assed with rebuilding it.
I have now dipped my toe, well ordered a K1 and taken to following walk through tutorials on FreeCad, so far so good FreeCad seems a lot easier than some of the 2D drawing packages I have played with in the past. It (FreeCad ) will run on the old hack laptop but Creality's print won't because of the Intel 3000 on board graphics, so will probably use the Win10 boot camp partition of the MBP for 3D work as the Mac IOS partition is rather full and I can't be assed with rebuilding it.
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Well, I got my K1 delievred today and spent an hour setting it up
First impressions: It comes fully built and it's a solid heavy lump. Exceptionally well packed, it comes with a decent sized roll of white PLA and all the tools you need to comission and use it, just like you'd expect from Creality. tHe few screws you need to do up are good quality and the tools are too.
To get it going you need to peel off the protective film on the board, build plate and the control panel, plug in the control pane ribbon and click the l panel into place on the front, click the spool holder on the rear and load the spool and filament which feeds through a PTFE tube to the extruder (which has an unlocking lever to catch the filament). Other than that there's four soft rubber feet and a door handle to fit.
I leapt straight in, went through the setup functions, let it self-test then went for the file menu where I expected to find (and did indeeed find) a test print, the little benchy boat.
First impressions are that it is phenominally fast compared to the Ender 3. This thing moves so fast that the whole printed, and the 3 drawer cabinet it sits on, visibly move under the forces generated by the printer. The test print lso came out very good, I mean you would expect them to have optimised it carefully but the print quality given the way the printer shakes and wobbles about is impressive.
What's not impressive is the noise. This thing is NOISY. It's got a fan inside that makes a noise like a pub toilet hand drier that's had a friday night kicking. I don't know how I'm going to get on with that because it's right next to my desk. I think that I'm going to have to do some furiture re-arranging.
Another thing I don't like is the filament spool stuck low down at the rear. I get that it can't be up high because it will be a giant inverted pendulum but for where I am keeping it, it makes it very awkward to change the filament.
Here's the benchy, printed in under 5 minutes I think.
So: build quality, accessories, performance - impressive. Noise - not good at all.
First impressions: It comes fully built and it's a solid heavy lump. Exceptionally well packed, it comes with a decent sized roll of white PLA and all the tools you need to comission and use it, just like you'd expect from Creality. tHe few screws you need to do up are good quality and the tools are too.
To get it going you need to peel off the protective film on the board, build plate and the control panel, plug in the control pane ribbon and click the l panel into place on the front, click the spool holder on the rear and load the spool and filament which feeds through a PTFE tube to the extruder (which has an unlocking lever to catch the filament). Other than that there's four soft rubber feet and a door handle to fit.
I leapt straight in, went through the setup functions, let it self-test then went for the file menu where I expected to find (and did indeeed find) a test print, the little benchy boat.
First impressions are that it is phenominally fast compared to the Ender 3. This thing moves so fast that the whole printed, and the 3 drawer cabinet it sits on, visibly move under the forces generated by the printer. The test print lso came out very good, I mean you would expect them to have optimised it carefully but the print quality given the way the printer shakes and wobbles about is impressive.
What's not impressive is the noise. This thing is NOISY. It's got a fan inside that makes a noise like a pub toilet hand drier that's had a friday night kicking. I don't know how I'm going to get on with that because it's right next to my desk. I think that I'm going to have to do some furiture re-arranging.
Another thing I don't like is the filament spool stuck low down at the rear. I get that it can't be up high because it will be a giant inverted pendulum but for where I am keeping it, it makes it very awkward to change the filament.
Here's the benchy, printed in under 5 minutes I think.
So: build quality, accessories, performance - impressive. Noise - not good at all.
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Complain about the fan, they will replace it.
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You'll be able to print stuff that's downloaded readily enough, but you'll probably have to run it through the slicer first. I might re-print my Balzer reliever model one evening when I'm working out in the workshop. I reckon that it will come out very well. One day I will build a proper working one.
I've found a home for my old Ender 3. My daughter is a school teacher so I asked her if the school would like it for their tech department, and they said that they would gladly accept it.
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The K1 has a monster fan in it because it's designed for super fast printing. The bambu is the same but not as loud.
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I have a number of small relatively simple parts for use around the house and greenhouse that should be easy to design that are not available and probably never were. I also have a number of older lenses that need lens hoods suitable for the APSC format camera they are now been used on, Contax or Zeiss only made lens hoods for full frame because that is what the lenses were made for and the original accessories for a forty year old lens are like hens' teeth and priced to match.
I have found some parametric lens hood designs on Thingiverse which calculate the shape and size for a given format, focal length, diameter of front element and filter size, that I am looking forward to experimenting with.
That lot should give me some practical experience that I can build on though I am sure that the K1 will be overkill to begin with, hopefully I will grow into it.
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Santa or rather DPD arrived earlier than expected but slap in the middle of their texted time slot on Saturday afternoon, as Saturday was a day of several minor annoyances I decided that setting up the K1 was best left till Sunday afternoon when hopefully I would be in a better frame of mind. Saturday was not improved by Mrs.ZX9's attitude of we don't need a 3D printer, we have no room for a 3D printer, you spent how much on a 3D printer...
Sunday afternoon comes and I unbox the K1, it failed the self test but that was my fault for putting the lid / top cover on whilst it was in the middle of the head acceleration / vibration compensation part of the self test. Self test re run and everything was ok. My this time Mrs. ZX9 had retired to the bath with a mug of tea and a book, she was in the bath long enough for me to do a couple of Creality's test prints. Knowing her well she would not have been impressed by a Benchie but an articulated cat, how could she not like an articulated cat, I was right she loves the articulated cat. The cat won her over and now she marvels at the opportunity afforded by a 3D printer to the extent that she has started a list of things for me to draw up and make.
Fortunately off spring #2 who got a good pass at A level Design is back from Uni on the 16th Dec. I do hope he has not forgotten everything about 3D Cad in the last two years...
Sunday afternoon comes and I unbox the K1, it failed the self test but that was my fault for putting the lid / top cover on whilst it was in the middle of the head acceleration / vibration compensation part of the self test. Self test re run and everything was ok. My this time Mrs. ZX9 had retired to the bath with a mug of tea and a book, she was in the bath long enough for me to do a couple of Creality's test prints. Knowing her well she would not have been impressed by a Benchie but an articulated cat, how could she not like an articulated cat, I was right she loves the articulated cat. The cat won her over and now she marvels at the opportunity afforded by a 3D printer to the extent that she has started a list of things for me to draw up and make.
Fortunately off spring #2 who got a good pass at A level Design is back from Uni on the 16th Dec. I do hope he has not forgotten everything about 3D Cad in the last two years...
